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...National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA) has developed a DNA analysis to distinguish French fungi from the Chinese ones without a taste test. Although French regulations call for a truffle's origins to be clearly marked, truffle experts say many vendors either ignore the rules or engage in outright mislabeling. France's fraud-control directorate now carries out random DNA testing to flush out bogus-truffle dealers. Anyone caught intending to deceive the consumer with a Chinese truffle may be fined $1,300. Still, there are few inspectors and many truffles. "If the consumer is properly informed that they...
...medical understaffing and under-stocking of Abu Ghraib were felt most acutely after the prison came under shelling by insurgents. A doctor who served there recalled an attack last April when a mortar landed on an outdoor pen holding prisoners, killing at least 16 outright and wounding more than 60. Former prison personnel described how those attacks produced pandemonium, with panicked prisoners seeking treatment from what were at times very few, poorly equipped medical workers. "When somebody died, we just took out their chest tube and inserted it into another, living person," said National Guard Captain Kelly Parrson, a physician...
With the two victories over their Ivy rivals, Harvard wrapped up its first Ivy dual meet championship since it shared it with Princeton during the 1995-1996 season. The last time the Crimson won it outright...
Some are still holding out: Stanford University is still considering the restrictions and the American Civil Liberties Union has rejected the grants outright...
...decision to issue an outright apology actually came an entire day earlier, when Summers and his staff in Massachusetts Hall determined the president had to publicly answer the growing din of criticism, according to an individual with knowledge of the central administration’s strategy last week...